Artists and ARTURIA #15 – Arnaud Rebotini
Arnaud Rebotini, the leading light of french electronic music is showing us how to make great techno tracks with Minibrute in an exclusive in-studio interview.
I Dream of Wires – Extended Interview Series: Drumcell
In January 2012, the I Dream of Wires team stopped by the studio of techno producer Drumcell, to discuss his evolution from producing with hardware, to software, and now back to hardware again, with a focus on eurorack modular synthesis. The interview was conducted for inclusion in “I Dream of Wires: the Modular Synthesizer Documentary.” Drumcell is also the founder of Droid Recordings, and co-founder of Droid Behavior, one of LA’s longest running techno event promotion companies, standing at the centre of the West Coast techno community for nearly a decade.
I DREAM OF WIRES is a forthcoming documentary film about the history and resurgence of modular synthesizers. The film is currently in production. This is the 3rd in a series of extended interviews, which will be produced and released in various formats throughout the production, and following the release, of the film. I DREAM OF WIRES extended interview segments are sponsored by MATRIXSYNTH (m.matrixsynth.com).
For more info on Drumcell, visit:
soundcloud.com/drumcell
droidbehavior.com/blog/artists-team/drumcell
For info on the film: idreamofwires.org
“WILD NIGHTS” – Techno using Rebirth on iPad
Back to the old school music with Propellerhead Rebirth on Ipad : made this new song Wild Nights (Techno / dance), while in the train with my Ipad2.
Just enjoying to play with this nice little application and hope to see reason coming!
Review: Massive beats from Nuclues SoundLab – Celluloide Beats
Time again for a review here at Steelberry Clones – this time we have taken a closer look at Nucleus SoundLabs’ new Reason Refill called Celluloide Beats.
To begin with Celluloide Beats consists of around 50 (x8) or so Combinator patches and associated sounds recreated as REX-files. Due to the way they are built they may easily be run in anything from 60/70 BPMs up to 270 > or so BPMs – it will still sound great. To get an overview of what you are getting I would loosely categorize it as multi-sampled drums, beats and percussions into a massively unique and powerful mix of rhythms and sounds that would easily fit into dubstep, electro, house, techno type music, but I would not limit it to that since there are several intriguing ambient type sounds with a real sci-fi / cinematic approach to them.
A good thing with the CMBs are that they are very easy to work with, partly because each CMB is more or less a full mix in itself with limited need for further mixing and mastering, and partly because they are using fairly common rhythms meaning that the tempo and the sequenced beats are not overly experimental. Each Combinator patch in a Celluloid Beats contains 8 loops – 1 original loop and 7 creative loop remixes. This is achieved, according to Nucleus, by using the Slice Edit Mode on Dr. OctoRex to change filtering, decay, volume and more on a per-step basis for each loop. Going farther than that, unique FX are added to each patch which are used to effect specific loop slices – so each slice in a loop can have a different distortion, filtering or delay. The resulting loop remixes sound incredibly complex, but they certainly aren’t complicated to use.
To purchase the product use the link below:
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New video from VCMG – ‘Single Blip’
http://youtu.be/yOoB0YSVuKw
VCMG’ second release from ‘Ssss’
VCMG release one of 2012’s most anticipated musical collaborations with the album ‘Ssss’, out on 12 March 2012.
It marks the long awaited reunion of electronic pioneers Vince Clarke (Erasure/ Yazoo/ Depeche Mode) and Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode)
Ssss Tracklisting:
Lowly
Zaat
Spock
Windup Robot
Bendy Bass
Single Blip
Skip This Track
Aftermaths
Recycle
Flux
Elektron Trinity Techno Performances
Techno performance by Jimmy Myhrman on the Elektron Trinity (Machinedrum, Octatrack and Monomachine).
“This is a preview of an upcoming track (not yet released). I will add release info here as soon as it’s available.”
Done on the Elektron Trinity (Octatrack, Machinedrum, Monomachine) and some samples from OP1 – actually 90 percent of the material was sampled on to the Octatrack from the machines – it works amazing as a producing machine 
Took around 2 hours to create the track but took longer to actually ‘perform’ it right and have the video looking OK.
Elektron Trinity:
Radical audio processing
The Octatrack is the given centre piece of the trinity. Since the audio outputs of the Machinedrum and Monomachine can be connected to the two input pairs of the Octatrack, no additional mixer is needed. The Octatrack can at the same time sample the incoming sounds, play back pre-recorded loops, add effects and in general radically process and bend sounds in any way imaginable.
The powerful rhythm section
Beats are taken care of by the Machinedrum. Five drum synthesis methods with detailed control of all parameters makes it right at home for all kinds of rhythmic material. The gritty 12 bit sample engine is especially suited for one shot drum hits and will make the UW samples stand out in any PA-system. The combination of drum synthesis and sampling equals complete drum excellence.
Sounds from outer space
The Monomachine is perfect for all things melodic. No matter if is about basses, leads or strange sounds: the flexible Monomachine sound engine can handle it all. The five different synthesis methods are the key. Imagine a sound and then create it in a few seconds with the help of FM synthesis, analog emulation, digital wavetables, SID chip emulation and speech synthesis.
Pure Minimal – A Minimal Techno sample pack
Here’s a new sound pack from Sampler Banks – featuring minimal techno sounds
http://www.samplerbanks.com/pure-minimal-minimal-techno-drum-loops-and-sample…
Pure Minimal is a collection of glitched, processed and tweaked minimal music loops produced specifically for the dance music producer.
Samplerbanks has released Pure Minimal, a sample set that they say features hundreds of twisted drum loops, bass and synth sounds, dozen of sampler kits offering you a fresh start for your minimal techno productions.
Pure Minimal is produced by Nawarro, a professional producer creating remixes and EPs for Anjunabeats, Deep Blue, Blaubeat (Baroque) and Dowalve Records, and Samplerbanks tells us that this sample pack was particularly inspired by the tribal and percussive movement as well as artists like Deadmau5, Sander van Doorn and Wippenberg.
Samplerbanks say that Pure Minimal is a collection of glitched, processed and tweaked minimal music loops produced specifically for the dance music producer. The pack contains 308 Drum, 65 Bass and 36 Synth Loops recorded at 126, 127 and 128 bpm. Loops are available not just as ACID-ised WAV files, but the whole source material is available in Apple Loop, REX2, Reason 5 ReFill or Ableton Live Pack formats
Added to the package are 100 Hats, 102 Kicks, 100 Percussions, 9 Riffs, 100 Claps, 50 SFX, 22 Stabs, 15 Vocal One-shots, 50 SFX and even 15 Egyptian vocal one-shot samples recorded during a trip. Samplerbanks tells us that all these samples are pre-mapped as 12 sampler banks kits for the popular software sampler formats: Kontakt, EXS 24, HALion, Reason NN-XT and SFZ.
- 541 MB original sounds, 100% royalty-free
- 409 24-bit loops categorized into Bass, Drum and Synth sections
- 498 one-shot samples
- 12 ready to play patches for Reason NN-XT, HALion, Kontakt, EXS and SFZ compatible soft samplers.
- Formats: Ableton Live, Reason Refill, ACID WAV and Apple Loops versions are available separately.
Pricing and Availability:
$31 USD / £19.95 GBP / 24.16 Euro – available as instant download
More information:
Felix Bernhardt new live elements (minimal techno)
Nice way to start of the new week with some minimal techno, enjoy
a little live session with KP3, Electribe, synthstation25 with synthapp on ipod and maschinedrum
download 320kbit mp3 here for free
http://hotfile.com/dl/134666023/131df19/New_Live_Elements.mp3.html
By the way while we are at it let us watch a japanese techno girl working the Animoog on the iPad:
“she began Animoog practice.
performing in front of the small general dealer in a shopping center. ”
Animoog
http://www.moogmusic.com/products/apps/animoog
camera crew : karsin
http://karsin.net/
Octatrack + Sylenth1 + Collision + Revolution = Minimal Saturday
Octatrack sequencing the revolution, sylenth1 and collision while providing the drum sounds. Minimal techno/acid jam.
Hardware:
Elektron Octatrack
Future Retro Revolution
Software:
Lennar Digital Sylenth1
Ableton Collision
Techno Classic – O-Generator Dance App
Classic techno track made simple. The key ingredients to building a dance track using the O-Generator Dance App.
Available from the App Store. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/o-generator-dance-music-maker/id439280418?mt=8
O-Generator Music Maker is an App that can be used as a musical sketchpad to make music, compose, learn, create and develop ideas in different styles whatever your musical level.
O-Generator’s simple interface achieves sophisticated results. You can create and combine chords, choose individual notes and develop unique rhythmic patterns for your music compositions using an array of real instruments from drumkits to guitars. The beauty about O-Generator is that YOU compose it.
Each circle represents a bar of music that has been broken up into 16th’s. Each pad allows the user to put in individual notes, chords, percussion or drum sounds.
There are 6 tracks available to compose with at one time, using our real instruments sounds. We provide a wide range of chords, from major and minor to 7th and 9th, that you can use to compose with in REAL TIME. Then copy, paste and arrange over numerous bars.
O-Generator comes with our Award Winning step-by-step audio tutorials. These lessons are ideas and starting points for those with limited music knowledge and offer tips for more advanced musicians. Lessons guide you in steps explaining song writing techniques for creating drum grooves and guitar riffs. You can also use our numerous loops to enhance your music.
We have a special ‘D-Generate’ feature enabling you to re-work, de-construct or as we like to say, ‘D-Generate’ our sample tune, with more ‘D-Generate’ songs coming soon.
O-Generator Acoustic features:
– Unique O-Generator interface
– 6 instrument tracks
– Real instrument samples
– Export to Mac or PC as AAC/WAV
– In-built music tutor (introduces some basics in music making)
– Selected instruments for your style of music
– Copy and paste
– Instrument volume and tempo control
– Multi-bar compositions
– Large in-built library of chords and notes
DATAMASKIN
